Why don't I get audio for just this one game?

[lozina]

I had a craving for some sea trading so I re installed Patrician IV from Steam and fired it up and right when the Kalypso intro video starts I hear a click in my headphones and suddenly all audio is cut off.

It doesn't come back until after I exit the game. So if I had some music playing on Spotify for example, it too would cut out to mute when game starts together with the game, and then comes right back on when the game is shut down.

It's a pretty old PC and I run plenty of old titles on it including from Kalypso like just recently was playing Jagged Alliance which has that same Kalypso intro video when it first starts but none of that audio cutting out issue.

Interesting thing is if I go into my sound settings and go to sound mixer, I see it shows Patrician IV under apps and the volume bar has a little bit of green that rises and falls indicating it is registering the audio from the game but I'm just not getting it to my headphones.

The headphones are Sony WH-CH510 connected via a ASUS USB-BT500 controller. I just updated the controller's drivers to no avail.

What could be going on?

 

[VirtualLarry]

I had this problem, in the Steam version of
Raiden 4: Overkill for PC.

When I had first downloaded the game, the soundtracks came as
mp3 files. But my most recent full download had them as flocs or whatever. I could still listed to them outside of the game, in an audio player, but I had lost my in-game music.

 

[lozina]

I had this problem, in the Steam version of
Raiden 4: Overkill for PC.

When I had first downloaded the game, the soundtracks came as
mp3 files. But my most recent full download had them as flocs or whatever. I could still listed to them outside of the game, in an audio player, but I had lost my in-game music.

Hmm, it's not just music though, it's everything including sound effects from clicking buttons and such. And what's more weird is it cuts the audio for everything else on my PC while the game is running. So if I had background music playing, which I often do when playing games, it cuts that out too until I close the game. I never seen this happen before! I contacted Kalypso support two weeks ago and they are struggling to figure it out too...

 

[Stg-Flame]

Is the game detecting a different audio device? I had this issue with an old 90s game where once I finally got the game to run, the audio would completely shut off and I found out it was because the game simply didn't know what my audio device was (7.1 headset). Once I changed my audio to my monitor speakers, it came through just fine.

I did a quick search for Patrician 4 and there's a few other Steam discussion posts about the same issue from a few years back, so it could just be this game bugging out or maybe something similar to what I ran into where the game simply didn't understand what audio device I was using.